My dad had a job in the destruction industry. He was a designer at one of those companies that made autonomous deforestation vehicles. Won the “Most Innovative Multi-channel Impact” award for a combination clear-cutting strip-mining air toxicity generating unit that could also inject waste product into the water table. It was powered by an ingeniously small nuclear generator that allowed the vehicle to run non-top for 50 years maintenance-free.

There was a glut of industrial engineers of all kinds after the Eco-rationing, but he found a job at a bicycle shop. I think he likes it better.